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Chef Laura Frankel's blog features a few simply delicious, healthy recipes for Passover and the rest of the year:
Chocolate Mousse with Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Passover used to mean a hiatus from good chocolate. Recently there have been several new companies that have introduced kosher for Passover high end chocolate.
7 ounces bittersweet chocolate (must be at least 70% cacao)
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup brewed coffee
4 eggs separated
2/3 cup powdered sugar (kosher for Passover)
1/3 cup brewed coffee
1 vanilla bean scraped
1. Melt the chocolate and cool to room temperature. Mix in the olive oil and coffee and set aside.
2. Combine the yolks and powdered sugar and whisk until foamy, add the chocolate mixture.
3. Beat the whites to stiff peaks; fold the whites into the chocolate.
4. Pour into a 9-ich cake pan or loaf pan lined with plastic wrap and chill 8 hours or freeze for 3 hours. Unmold onto a serving plate and slice.
For a variation I like to sprinkle coarse sea salt onto the top of the mousse. The sea salt brings out the fruitiness of the olive oil and the chocolate.
Poached Halibut in Olive Oil
I remember the first time I watched a chef/friend poach fish in olive oil. It was one of those moments when the light bulb goes off! The fish cooks through with a gentle heat transfer and gains the delicate olive oil flavor. The fish is moist and really luscious! Enjoy the fish hot or cold.
4 cups olive oil
4 6-ounce halibut filets-skinned and boned
1 whole head of garlic cut in half
6 thyme sprigs
1 rosemary sprig
Preheat oven to 275.
1. Place the olive oil into a large oven proof dish. Cover the fish with olive oil ¾ of the way. Add the garlic and herbs. Cover the fish directly with a piece of parchment paper.
2. Poach the fish until firm and completely translucent (about 15 minutes). Gently remove the fish and discard the garlic and herbs. Strain the oil and refrigerate covered. The oil can be used to poach fish again and will keep for up to 2 weeks.
Parsley sauce with Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 large bunches of flat leaf parsley, leaves trimmed off (reserve the stems for stock making)
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Place a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Lightly coat the bottom of the pan with olive oil. Sear the parsley for about 2 minutes until it is bright green and slightly wilted.
2. Place the parsley and extra virgin olive oil in a blender and process until the sauce has a smooth consistency. Salt and pepper to taste
Chef Laura, who authored Jewish Cooking For All Seasons and Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes, is known for the health consciousness reflected in her recipes. As she puts it, in her blog:
When cooking for Passover and for every meal, I recommend whole, natural ingredients. I never go to the dark side of cooking with products that are loaded with laboratory made ingredients and faux flavors or colors. For this holiday and everyday-let's keep it real.
I've tasted some of the recipes in Chef Laura's books, I've eaten at Shallots when it was open in New York; I can assure you they are all excellent!


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MediaTek points out key DTV trends of 2013
Keywords:DIAL? 4K x 2K? HTML5? NFC? digital TVs?
MediaTek, backed up by a large customer base including both handset and TV OEMs/ODMs throughout Asia, is today in a rare position: other than Samsung, perhaps no other company is positioned to speak authoritatively on how things developed in handsets will dictate features and functions that must go into a new generation of digital TVs.
EE Times met with MediaTek President Ching-Jiang Hsieh and saw some of the demonstrations at the company's private suite during the recent International Consumer Electronics Show.
Eight hot features, identified and pitched by MediaTek, are likely to drive global consumer system designs in 2013. They include: multi-screens in the living room, DIAL, 4K x 2K, HTML5, Near Field Communications (NFC), fast boot time, quad-core/higher GPU and HEVC (H.265).
During the interview, Hsieh stressed how quickly the HEVC codec will become a critical element in smartphones, tablets and TVs. He also said that 4K x 2K—an emerging ultra-high resolution standard—is already a "very important marketing tool for branded customers.
Hsieh also laid out that smart TV is still evolving, requiring OEMs and ODMs to follow multiple routes to get there. These include a smart TV dongle, a smart TV set-top, Linux-based smart TV and fundamental support for HTML 5, he said.
Among the plethora of new features, one area MediaTek is very keen on pushing is the multi-screen scenario in the living room.
MediaTek claimed an industry's first by integrating Miracast-certified Wi-Fi display technology with NFC to seamlessly connect a smart TV with the latest MediaTek quad-core smartphone platform. "With a simple tap of the device, it is possible to wirelessly stream HD quality video and other multimedia content from mobile and other devices onto big screen HDTVs without connecting through an access point," according to the company.
DIAL: 'Killer app'
MediaTek, however, wants to go a step further. The company believes the ace in the hole in popularizing such a multi-screen scenario rests on DIAL, an emerging open protocol that's been quietly developed by Netflix and YouTube.
DIAL, which stands for "discovery and launch," enables second-screen apps on smartphones. The technology can discover DIAL-ready first-screen devices (i.e. smart TVs) in the same network and launch apps on them-without requiring a manual launch or pairing process by the user.
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"its over. let it go."
"What's next, a CBGB theme park in Orlando?"
"Please….Let it R E S T in Peace"
—CBGBS Facebook Page Commenters
Reviving the Spirit
I've heard the grumbling over the Interwebs and spreading throughout the streets of New York and Brooklyn. The cries of the punks (paraphrasing): "sell-out," "it's dead," "NYC and CBGBs throwing a concert in Times Square… a commercial miasma!" and so on and so forth. The comment backlash began immediately after a May 7th, somewhat out-of-the-blue, Festival-announcement article in the New York Times, with a subsequent May 8th article in Rolling Stone. The gist of comments posted on the Rolling Stone article boiled down: the Festival is a blatant commercial ploy.
It's possible that that's the mindset behind the four-day event that starts today in Manhattan and Brooklyn, though Lisa Kristal Burgman, the daughter of CBGB legend, Hilly Kristal, after wrestling control of the brand name in a fierce legal battle following the death of her father in 2006, seems to have made sure to sell the rights to people with former vested love in the club itself. Sure, my brain screams that it's another death knell in NYC's neverending march toward clean-cut oblivion, but heck, it's like everything else in this town. We won't even talk about the CBGBs movie currently filming in Savannah, Georgia, of all places, either. For better or worse, CBGBs is a commercial product and holding any type of festival in New York City automatically equals a hell of a lot money spent, lost, or earned. But here's the bottom line: at least the organizers are giving it the old college try, maybe for the love of money, but probably also out of love for the passed-on spirit of CBGB. I'm willing to see what the festival brings before I pronounce it dead on arrival.
You Can Never Go Back
CBGB will always live in the hearts of those who frequented the now-defunct building located at 315 Bowery in the heart of what used to be the grimiest, grittiest, most "real" part of New York City known as The Bowery. Intermixed with the "real" New York of the Bowery (where you can still find people splayed drunk on the ground), are fancy restaurants, apartment buildings, and hotels where lowly NYers like me can't — and never will — afford dinner let alone an apartment or night's hotel stay. For those of us who remember the Bowery and CBGB as it was, we miss not necessarily the grime or crime (it's still plenty dirty though much safer), but the spirit of independence that seems to be dying with each closing venue or flophouse on the Bowery, the East Village, or Lower East Side. There's too many closed places to mention, but two good blogs that capture both the overall changes in NYC and the East Village are Jeremiah's Vanishing New York and the EV Grieve. EV Grieve's by-line reads: "Here, you'll find things that you may or may not be interested in about the East Village and other parts of New York City. Appreciating what's here while it's still here. Remembering what's no longer here. Wishing some things weren't here that are here."
All I'm Hoping for is a Heartbeat
Starting with Mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990s (yes, I know, some will scoff and say it all started with Rudy Giuliani), the city began a cleanup from the accumulated blight of three centuries of existence and moved toward what it is today: a Disney-fied playground for the rich. The bandshell of Tompkins Square Park in the East Village was vanished and the park beautified in the late 1980s, beginning that area's overpriced tenement real estate craze. The Meatpacking District's S&M club, The Vault (aka The Manhole, and the Hellfire Club), shut down and slaughterhouses turned into Fifth Avenue-type clothing stores. Times Square's porn palaces ended in movie megaplexes and Broadway got a facelift away from bulb-powered billboards to huge plasma screen displays all over the goddamned place, but at night, it's a beautiful sight to behold, if you look up long enough to gaze at the displays without wanting to punch a tourist.
There's a constant pull between the old and the new, but it's always been like that in New York City. In 1898, when the city consolidated its current area as Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island, Brooklyn lamented its being swallowed up by Manhattan, and 114 years later, people still bitch about Consolidation. NYC is a place — for good or bad — that constantly remakes itself every couple of generations.
Today, the old CBGB's space is a high-priced John Varvatos clothing store. Socks go for big bucks, and the cost of a jacket? Fudgeddaboutit. Whether John Varvatos loves music or not (which he obviously does as many of his publicity campaigns include rock stars such as Green Day)… thats, just… wrong, in the eyes of not only me, but others as well. No offense to Varvatos himself, but when the battle between Hilly Kristal and his landlord ended in the demise of the club and the Varvatos store moved in, it felt like a knife slicing through the heart, the end of a spirit of independence, of a connection to the poor and the punks, and an ironic twist of angst was left that's difficult to let go of, even years after CBGBs closed.
Green Day in John Varvatos
Since you can't go back to the old days… and really, if you remember what the Bowery was like in 1985, the year I moved to NYC from Detroit — drug infested, dangerous, and just plan nasty — what is there left to do? You can either let CBGB die a noble, final death and still make money from the brand profits alone… or you can create a giant festival in the name of CBGB, in the heart of New York (and Brooklyn) and attempt to infuse some spirit back into that once independent club on Bowery, if in name only.
I was discussing this on Facebook and a Native New Yorker friend wrote: "CBGB's never represented anything to me other then a nasty hole in the wall that smelled like Port Authority. Sure a LOT of great bands were fostered there, but the mystique around it has to do with the Energy, the Time and specific Place fusing perfectly [emphasis mine]… [Today's CBGB has] GOT to be sincere, in it for LOVE, not some concept of success — maybe not PUNK ethos, but certainly one for any kind of REAL Authentic expression, however it manifests."
CBGB's old haunt has died, Hilly Kristal has died, and maybe New York has died, too, but if CBGB's was worth it in the first place, isn't it worth breathing life back into it and hoping to find some heartbeat of authentic expression? I believe it is. So I hope, despite a strange and somehow lackluster slew of bands listed for the festival, that I'll hear somewhere, a faint heartbeat of the old Bowery and CBGBs.


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Don – a film review
If film critics took into account the Entertainment Value (EV) of a film while reviewing it, then a lot of 'good' films could be dubbed as 'bad' and a lot of 'bad' films dubbed as 'good'. At least that's what the critics think. The reality is that a badly made film with low scores on editing, cinematography, acting and casting, direction, music, story-line and so on, is unlikely to have high EV and will never succeed at the box office. In fact a film that makes money and has high EV is likely to score at least averagely on the above aspects, perhaps even all. It's subject is also likely to have mass appeal or high escapist value.
On the other hand, a film that flops usually has low EV and is very likely to be badly made or if it does happen to be well-made, it's flopped because the subject is (yawn) esoteric or because the treatment is stale or because the film scores very very poorly on at least one of the critical aspects …like say editing, acting or story-line.
Considering the primary objective of going to see a film is entertainment – I guess it's EV that finally counts. So let's just concentrate on that and leave the business of dissecting films to the cynics. Lets see a film from the point of view of the average cinema-going public. People like you and me.
So how much EV do we give Don, which is a re-make of the 1978 Hindi blockbuster?
Its entertaining
Ummm…I would say at least average. On second thoughts, good! Shah Rukh plays the role of the dashing, flamboyant and philandering villain with panache. It's a relief to see that he does not over-act. After Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, I had almost forgotten that the man could act. But then he was always pretty good at playing the villain…remember Baazigar and Darr? Well, he sends a chill down our spine this time, with his menacing expressions and megalomania.
The movie, directed by Farhan Akhtar, begins with familiarising the viewer with the activities of this 'Don', a drug smuggler, but the plot really thickens when we find that our villain has a 'double'. While the story-line is basically the same as the old one, there are surprises in store for those who expect a faithful re-make…
What's it about?
But what's Don really about? Well…it's about a gang war between two 'Dons' – Shah Rukh and a faceless gangster called Wardhan. It's about Don's double Vijay who tries to save the day by helping the cops nab Don. It's also about Inspector D'Silva (played by Boman Irani) who recruits Vijay. Arjun Rampal plays the role of Jasjeet, an aggrieved father whose life has been ruined by Wardhan. Later, as the end draws near, it's Jasjeet who plays the role of a catalyst in bringing the plot to a satisfying end. The end is in fact is one of the best 'ends' I have ever seen in an Hindi movie…the high rise chases, bloody fights, and a whammy of a twist in the tail.
Pretty girls
One mustn't forget the pretty girls though none of them had a meaty role. Kareena Kapoor does an item number to seduce Don, Isha Koppikar plays Anita the gangster's moll, and Priyanka Chopra is Roma who joins Don's gang to avenge her brother's death. None these girls stand out, except perhaps Kareena. But she lacks the oomph that is so necessary to play the role of a seductress.
Average acting
In this film Boman Irani (Inspector D'Silva) goes around with a bland expression on his face most of the time. And Arjun Rampal looks good…but his acting isn't spectacular.
The music
The music, by Shankar Ehsan Loy, is good and the song Aaj Ki Raat is special. Main Hoon Don from the older version of Don, is a new and catchy re-mix, the background chorus of Don, Don, Don, adding a touch of the sinister. Yeh Mera Dil is also rehashed and made more contemporary. The song Khaike Paan Benaras Wala however falls short of Kishore Kumar's original.
In conclusion
Overall the movie is fast-paced, picking up speed in the second half. There are a lot of thrills for the viewer…as long as he overlooks the glaring impossibilities…the way Don manages to escape sticky situations has a touch of the ridiculous …
Certain scenes like the one when Don falls off a plane or the car chase through narrow lanes seems familiar…probably ripped off from some English movie. Why does this have to happen…why do our directors not bother to choreograph their own scenes? This kind of plagiarism of scenes has become so common now that no one raises eye-brows anymore…
All in all, Don is above average on EV. The racy plot, the double role, the pretty women, the song and dance and ofcourse – Shah Rukh's acting. It's certainly not the Satya kind of gangster film, which had a high dose of reality. It's best to watch Don with a complete suspension of disbelief.
(Picture sourced from Apun Ka Choice)
January 11, 2007 5:23 am
DON IS SUPERB! Farhan has used the loopholes in the old script and turned the story into a new fast foward, suprising new story, waay better than the old one in my opinion.
Shahrukh and Boman are the reason to watch this film over and over again. They are truly rocking this one.


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The Situation of Talk Radio
Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 14, 2008
Sue Wilson recently wrote an editorial for The Sacramento Bee, "Federal rules give corporation-backed conservative radio all the local voices." In it she discusses several of the situational forces influencing what voices and viewpoints occupy the airwaves. We've posted much of the editorial below in part because reading it in its entirety helps set the stage for Rush Limbaugh's reaction, portions of which are also included below.
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There's a mournful hush in Sacramento these days, the empty sound of an entire political viewpoint quieted. More than 32,000 weekly listeners who once tuned to KSAC (1240 AM) to hear partisan Democrats beat up on President George W. Bush, now hear only Christian hip-hop.
There's nothing wrong with Christian hip-hop; it's a great outlet for artists breaking out of the gansta rap mold. But there are six other commercial radio stations licensed in the Sacramento area programming the Christian message. In the political realm, three local radio stations program 264 hours of partisan Republican radio talkers beating up on Democrats every week. Now, zero stations program any Democratic view whatsoever: 264-0.
This follows the national trend revealed in the 2007 Free Press and Center for American Progress study, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio." Nationally, 90 percent of commercial talk radio is conservative; only 10 percent is liberal. (This study does not include Public Radio, which by statute is required to provide differing points of view. . . .)
KSAC shared another characteristic with other liberal radio stations: It had a tiny, 1,000-watt transmitter. Tough for a little station that barely reached Sacramento's suburbs to compete with 50,000 watt giant KFBK, whose signal stretches from Chico to Modesto, from Reno to that little town of San Francisco. Despite KFBK reaching millions more potential listeners, KSAC mustered an audience nearly 20 percent that of KFBK's. (Its ratings were double local conservative station KTKZ, which has a 5,000-watt transmitter.) And Arbitron showed the progressive station's audience was steadily growing. KSAC was the little station that could.
Until it couldn't.
It wasn't that Talk City didn't have listeners, it's that it didn't have advertisers.
The radio business model is simple: Start a show, grow an audience and advertisers will follow. But that model doesn't work for progressive talk radio.
Why would advertisers steer clear of progressive talk? Chris Jones, managing editor of the blog "the Hot Points," writes: "What respectable business is going to send millions of dollars in ad revenue to people who bash the president, the country and the war on a constant basis? Not only that, but liberals never miss an opportunity to bash corporations as evil and crooked. Why the hell would big business support the enemy?"
Well, wait a minute. Plenty of advertisers supported radio shows that bashed then- President Bill Clinton, calling his pursuit of Osama bin Laden "wagging the dog." But this misses the real point: Why are corporate dollars the sole arbiter of what information we the people get to hear on publicly owned airwaves?
The answer is policy-makers, with campaigns financed by those same corporations, changed two important rules. In 1987, then-President Reagan's FCC got rid of the Fairness Doctrine, which required that radio and TV provide a "reasonable opportunity to hear both sides of controversial issues." The Reagan administration thought the marketplace would provide its own balance.
Then, in 1996, Congress allowed a few companies to own unlimited numbers of radio stations. Huge conglomerates bought the best and biggest stations, and purchased multiple stations within the same market. Then they blanketed more than 1,700 stations with conservative talk. Using their newly created economies of scale, they offered businesses special packages to advertise on stations they owned both locally and nationally.
That in turn starved independent stations of revenue. It was good business.
But it shouldn't be only about good business; it should also be about public policy and the discourse demanded by Democracy, a discourse protected well by the founders of broadcasting but ignored by recent deregulation.
Broadcasters make a deal when they obtain – for free – a license to broadcast in a community. In exchange for the opportunity to make millions of dollars, the broadcasters must serve the public interest – the public interest of all of the people, not just a targeted slice of audience most likely to buy their product. It should not be solely about corporations willing to shell out millions to market their message and to keep business-friendly politicians in office.
It should also be about revealing the information that Enron, Bear Stearns, Halliburton and other corporations would prefer to hide.
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We have allowed policy-makers in this country to create a so-called marketplace to promote one message almost exclusively over another.
But there really is no marketplace at all. Anybody can start a new coffee shop across from Starbucks and compete for business. But almost nobody can just start a new radio station to compete for listeners; the airwaves are limited, and the frequencies are already taken – mostly by big corporations.
Considering a 2003 Gallup poll showing that 22 percent of Americans get their information from talk radio, we're not just talking about what is fair play; we are talking about a threat to the democracy we hold dear.
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It is time for all of us to take their lead, to remember that we the people own these frequencies, and to compel our representatives to put the public back into the public airwaves.
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Here is a portion of Rush Limbaugh's reaction, "SacBee Laments Right-Wing Talk Radio as a 'Threat to Democracy.' Notice how Limbaugh describes the success of conservative talk radio as solely the consequence of content and merit (disposition, not situation), while, in a way, recognizing that pro-commercial ideas are advantaged.
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As you know, ladies and gentlemen, my adopted hometown is Sacramento, California. I worked out there at KFBK, 50,000 watt blowtorch, 'til this day carries the program, been on the air there since 1984, so 24 years at KFBK Sacramento, number one. And while there, one of my nemeses was the Sacramento Bee, the local newspaper owned by the McClatchy clan. It is still owned by the McClatchy clan, and it has still refused to accept what has happened to me, as evidenced by a story that is special to the Bee published yesterday. Headline: "Federal Rules Give Corporation-Backed Conservative Radio all the Local Voices." This is a story, this is a hand-wringing, tear-jerker story of how liberal talk radio couldn't make it out there, and damn it, it's not fair, it's not right, and it's because federal rules give corporation-backed conservative radio all the local voices. . . .
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. . . . I would defy anybody to find me a liberal network show, nationally syndicated liberal show that registers any significant ratings anywhere. They don't. And even those that get some numbers do not have advertisers. Sue Wilson here swerved into it. There's a very simple reason why. . . . [I]f you are a corporation or a small business, why in the world would you spend any money on a radio station or a show which is demonizing you and the business community as the greatest modern focus of evil in the country outside of the US military? Why in the world would you do it? Not to mention advertising on these stations got no results because their audience hears a commercial for corporation, "Screw that corporation, I'm not going there." If the corporation doesn't do commercials bashing Bush — I mean this is an insane, lunatic fringe audience these people are trying to reach. Sacramento voter registration, when I was there, was 72% Democrat.
They've gotta start asking themselves, why does liberal programming not work? But they're wringing their hands, "It's just unfair, because corporations won't put liberal talk radio on powerful stations. That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, it's really not fair. You get the big station, and they get the little Podunk stations. No wonder." I got the big station and earned the right to be there, as has everybody else on KFBK, via content, content, content. This is not hard to understand, but these libs and the Drive-By Media want to portray this as some sign of corporate unfairness. . . .
". . . . Why are corporate dollars the sole arbiter of what information we the people get to hear on publicly owned airwaves?" This is the reporter asking the question, which illustrates glittering ignorance of how the market works.
Let me answer your question, Sue. Corporate dollars are not the sole arbiter of what information you the people get to hear on publicly owned airwaves. Your little lib station, your little lib programming has had a couple of opportunities in Sacramento. Nobody wanted to listen to it. Corporations are not required to lose money in order to present a point of view and in such a way that irritates people just so there is so-called fairness. Besides, you've always got NPR, Sue. There's an NPR outlet out there and assorted other liberal outlets with no ratings and no advertisers because they don't have to. They're paid for by the government! There is not one conservative radio network in the country paid for with government dollars. You got NPR. NPR is paid for with government dollars — radio and television. So go there. What has been demonstrated here is that for all the talk about a 50-50 country and this, that, and the other thing, the simple fact of the matter is that the liberal point of view as constituted today repulses people. They have chosen and demonstrated they have no desire to listen to it, not even lunatic fringe libs like it.
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Notice how Limbaugh claims that progressive ideas are unattractive to American listeners despite the fact that he routinely laments the alleged liberal bias elsewhere in the media (beyond talk radio). Is it feasible that progressive ideas are palatable — preferred even — in the newspapers and on telvision, but repulsive on the radio?
The pair of items, we believe, nicely illustrate the naive cynicism dynamic (discussed in posts such as "Naive Cynicism," and "Naïve Cynicism in Election 2008"), and the system-justification motive (discussed in posts such as "Patriots Lose: Justice Restored!," "Thanksgiving as "System Justification"?" and "The Young and the Lucky." The two pieces also confirm the deep-capture hypothesis (discussed in posts such as "Ayn Rand's Dispositionism," and "Deep Capture – Part X," "The company "had no control or influence over the research" . . . ." and "The Situation of Judging.").
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May 15, 2008 at 6:33 am
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September 10, 2008 at 6:12 pm
If progressives want to change this situation they can. Advertisers are afraid of losing customers. We have to make it uncomfortable for advertisers that supply revenue to one sided conservative talk radio.
Forget about your governmental representatives. They won't act. At least they won't act quickly.
Someone needs to put up a web-page where local listeners can post names of companies that advertise on biased programming.
Progressives need to call the phone numbers of companies as soon as they advertise their phone number on the radio. Flood their little phone systems with calls expressing our feelings about doing business with companies that sponsor the trash we have to listen to.
We should go after the small advertisers first. The lawyers, dentists, etc. who give out their local number. They want & need local business. They also aren't sophisticated enough to know exactly whether their advertising dollars are really paying off. If they get even 20 or thirty negative calls every time their ad plays it will discourage them.
If it's about money then let's really hit them where it hurts. Very few businessmen are stubborn enough to risk their dollars.
I would set up the web-site but I can't afford to spend the time. I DO have time to call advertisers whenever they give out their phone number. Especially when I'm in the car. I do this frequently. I get pissed off and rather than call into the show to express my opinion ( only to have it squelched by a technician) I simply call advertisers. They generally are freaked out and set aback when they get my phone call.
Come on. Here is a plan that will work. Primarily, in local markets where they have local personalities that are trying to ride Rush Limbaughs coat tails.
November 1, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Do you ever hear anyone who opposes Rush, get on the air. Very rarely because the those who pay him the big bucks to stir up lies and deceit to mislead or rather control people's thinking don't want his listeners to hear voices of reason and outrage against this lying blow-hard that should be brought to justice for leading the brainwashing of America. Most un-American…


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It's starting to look more and more like Osama bin Laden was not only in hiding at Abbottabad, he was in forced exile. It seems as al Qaeda may have seized the opportunity of his need to go into hiding to put him out to pasture. In a blockbuster piece on May 3 for Truthout titled The Truth Behind the Official Story of Finding Bin Laden, Gareth Porter provides evidence. When a senior U.S. intelligence official said that he "was active in operational planning and in driving tactical decisions," Porter writes, he and CIA officials were:
… blatantly misrepresenting … bin Laden's role in al-Qaeda when he was killed. … In fact, during his six years in Abbottabad, bin Laden was not the functioning head of al-Qaeda at all, but an isolated figurehead who had become irrelevant to the actual operations of the organization. The real story … is that bin Laden was in the compound in Abbottabad because he had been forced into exile by the al-Qaeda leadership.
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… several months after the Abbottabad documents [taken by Special Operations forces from the scene] had been thoroughly analyzed and the results digested by senior administration officials, the administration was unable to cite a single piece of evidence that bin Laden had given orders for — or was even involved in discussing — a real, concrete plan for an al-Qaeda action, much less one that had actually been carried out. Far from depicting bin Laden as the day-to-day decisionmaker or even "master strategist" of al-Qaeda, the documents showed a man dreaming of glorious exploits that were unconnected with reality.
Porter explains that retired Pakistani Brig. Gen. Shaukat Qadir gathered information from "Pakistani tribal and ISI sources" about bin Laden's exile and his discovery by the CIA.
"Nobody listened to his rantings anymore," said one of the [former couriers for TTP, Pakistan's Taliban] in a conversation with Qadir. "He had become a physical liability and was going mad," another told Qadir a couple of days earlier. "He had become an object of ridicule," said the second courier. … That situation led Zawahiri to propose … that bin Laden be forced to retire from active involvement in the organization's decisions.
Also on May 3, the Combating Terrorist Center (CTC) at West Point published/posted its analysis of the small sample of the documents released to it by the Director of National Intelligence. The report, of course, contains none of the inside information Porter gleaned about how other al Qaeda members felt about bin Laden. But as you can tell by the title — Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined? — it attests to his waning influence and at times suggests he was being indulged. Surprisingly, it may have been partly because, by this point, no longer a loose cannon, he had become al Qaeda's force of restraint (if you can call anything it does restrained). (I wrote about this on May 8: Bin Laden Grows a Conscience.)
In particular, his concern was curbing the brutal excesses of al Qaeda affiliates. Today's al Qaeda is characterized as decentralized. Viewed through the lens of complexity science — in particular, complex adaptive systems — it exhibits self-organization, adaptation in response to "perturbation," and "emergent" leadership (different leaders rise to the top in different situations). But the inclination of affiliates to go their own may have partly been a symptom of their lack of respect for bin Laden.. As Patrick Cockburn wrote: "A striking feature of these letters is that there is no evidence that their recipients made any effort to carry out their leader's instructions." Other examples of bin Laden's waning influence from the CTC report follow.
The documents show that some of the affiliates sought Bin Ladin's blessing on symbolic matters, such as declaring an Islamic state, and wanted a formal union to acquire the al-Qa`ida brand. On the operational front, however, the affiliates either did not consult with Bin Ladin or were not prepared to follow his directives.
… Far from being in control of the operational side of regional jihadi groups, the tone in several letters authored by Bin Ladin makes it clear that he was struggling to exercise even a minimal influence over them.
… One of the letters … from a "loving brother" addressed to Bin Ladin. … alerted Bin Ladin that when one is distant from reality, as Bin Ladin was because of security measures he was forced to take, the soundness of one's judgment was bound to be impaired.
… The documents make it clear that Bin Ladin was not informed of the TTP's planned bombing of Times Square in New York City, a failed attack on U.S. soil attempted by Faisal Shahzad in May 2010.
… Bin Ladin had apparently sent `Atiyya [al Qaeda leader Atiyyatullah] some suggestions on how to improve the economy, but `Atiyya either ignored them or had not attended to them. … Not only does he seem to have acted as Bin Ladin's conduit, but it is alos possible that he exercised more control than he was authorized. In one of the letters, for example, Bin Ladin appeared frustrated that the audio or visual recordings he was sending to`Atiyya were either being delayed or not being released at all.
… Bin Ladin's decision not to grant al-Shabab a public union with al-Qa`ida [may have been] the subject of internal debate within al-Qa`ida and possibly behind his back.
[Al Qaeda's functioning leader Ayman] al-Zawahiri is conspicuously distant from people in bin Ladin's immediate circle.
It's ironic that bin Laden's step back from the abyss of mass murder — if less out of compassion for the suffering of innocent Muslims than to advance the cause of jihad — left him out of touch with the al Qaeda affiliates. As he aged, he seems to have forgotten that jihad was just another name for exploding body parts on the parts of the disenfranchised young men who formed and joined the affiliates. Bin Laden, with his newfound focus on providing services, was taking the fun out of jihad.


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A very telling moment in tonight's game, as caught by ESPN's cameras: Chad Billingsley was magnificent through five, allowing two hits and no runs over 83 pitches. With the pitcher's spot due to lead off the sixth inning, Billingsley, who had grabbed a bat and helmet, was shown trying to convince Joe Torre and the coaching staff to let him bat. But Torre wasn't having any of it, instead choosing to have Jason Schmidt pinch-hit (to preserve his bench with a four-run lead).
The sixth inning has been a bugaboo for Billingsley, and you love to see him rarin' to go out and conquer it. But with
him possibly hyperextending his left leg on a follow-though Billingsley experiencing a right-hamstring cramp in the fifth inning, Torre decided not to take any risks. And of course Schmidt singled and eventually scored, making Torre look like a gee-nee-uss.
Bat of the game goes to Matt Kemp (3-for-5, five RBIs), who popped a Earl Weaver-approved three-run homer in the fifth (the Dodgers' second three-run home run of the series!). Question mark of the game goes to Manny Ramirez (1-for-4, two runs, one nice defensive play), who, as Joe Morgan surmised, may still be feeling the effects of being hit on the hand by Homer Bailey.
Tonight's win salvages the road trip at 3-4. Not bad, given that the Dodgers dropped three straight to the Cardinals to start it off.
UPDATE: Billingsley exits with right hamstring cramp (Dodgers.com)


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Gasp…wheeze…stumble..almost there…
The Friday finish line is just a few hours away,and soon this week will be nothing but a memory!
But it will be a week with some good memories from posts out in blog world:
Nicole Marie is getting back to writing her novel. One of my favorites, Flame, is back, with a great post on Camping!
And finally, Marie won the lottery!!!
Thanks to them, and all the rest of you for a great week in the 'sphere.
Of course, we have to go back to last week to get the answers from the poll.
We asked What could possibly be better than Sliced Bread? And wow, did you guys…rise to the challenge! Here's what you had to say. (As always, my comments bake in italics.)
TMWGITU! Snaapy-G
(Well that goes without saying. And stop hitting on my wife.)
Homemade bread! Benzeknees
(My home barely keeps me warm, and yours makes bread?!?)
Sliced Cheese. Mmmmmm…..
(I think we should make a cheese and bread slices quilt, held together with thin red licorice thread!)
Raisin bread. French toast. Strawberry bread. —Jell Jell
(Raisins are the devil's fruit!)
an orga…wait…is this a trick question? Seems to easy. 🙂 Mel
(It's…crap, your answer made me forget the question…)
sliced mozzarella cheese and a jersey tomato. mmm (wordsandotherthings)
(Says the Jersey Tomato: Nah. I'll take you to a place in Brooklyn where they grow tomatoes like they do in the old country. Fuhgedaboudit.)
Sliced cake —Lily
(Oh, so close. Now if you'd said "with frosting"…)
Derrr, bread with vegemite on it (says LITFL) 😉
(After a quick google search, I'm going to have to say that I don't think bread is strong enough to hide the taste of Vegemite.)
Breadsticks Rebecca 2000
(A food and a weapon. I like it!)
Divited Donuts lindav
(United we slice, divited we donut?)
What about just bread in general? It's pretty great. Carrie – Cannibalistic Nerd
(How could general bread be better than sliced bread? That's just crazy talk!)
baguettes with salt butter, actually! NBI
(Isn't it illegal to not have baguettes with fromage?)
and a good blog too of course. NBI
(Tastes even smoother if you let the blog melt a bit before spreading.)
Naan. If I could eat Naan every day I would die happy (and large). Love & Lunchmeat
(You Pouri , Pouri girl.)
(A delightfully soft warm yeasty white bread slice between two scrumptious pieces of sour dough, served with a side of bread crumbs and a cracker! Mmmm…)
squeezy cheese..squirt cheese canned cheese lizziec
(It's very unsanitary to eat that straight from the nozzle. I mean, or so I've heard…)
Warm, unsliced bread. 54.5
(Unsliced? Sounds like someone's been loafing around. HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!)
FRIED sliced bread
(Step awaaay from the county fair.)
sliced soup Stay Abnormal
Getting literal here. Sriracha. Or Ranch dressing. Quirky
(How are you going to fit salami between two blob of ranch dressing? Actually, htat sounds kind of tasty…)
Youtube. A video of sliced bread, obviously.
(No. No really, it's not:)
I see your "buttered" & raise you "with melted cheese." Duh.
(…and now I'm sitting on a tower of butter and cheese. Excellent!)
The bread. Not the knife. Hand-ripping pieces apart counts as slicing. BrainTomahawk
(well yeah, if you're Edward Scissorhands.)
Everything else. I hate bread. — asplenia
(Right, so Asplenia says Root Canal is better. We need to find you a good baker.)
Buttered, sliced, toasted bread, with Vegemite. And hot tea on the side (Kanerva)
(Vegemite? What would your Finnish neighbors say?)
Beer! (SnB)
(the ingredients of bread, and then some!)
Buttered sliced toast, obviously – John Phillips Bet 8 others did this one
(If only you'd bet on Vegemite…)
Congratulations to Stay Abnormal on this week's winning answer. (Seriously, not since Joe Hoovers Gravy. Cold Gravy. cola flavor have I been so moved by an answer to one of these!). And from the offered choices, the most popular was BRRRAAAIIINNNSSSS!!!!. (I LOVE when that happens!)
So congratulations to all you lucky pickers out there too!
And that brings us neatly into this week.
There was plenty of news from Curiosity on Mars this week – pictures, readings, some movement.
So now that it's there, how should Curiosity spend its time? That's what we want to know.
Heck, just to sweeten the pot, maybe I'll even take the winning answer and send an email to NASA that will be posted next week.
Try not to me in trouble with NSA, hmm?
So lets dive right in! Remember, if you write an answer in, if you leave an ID, I can link back to you next week. So vote often, vote creatively. But vote before 6 Sept, 2359,
Earth Eastern time. Because that's when this one closes.
And until next time, here's some otherworldliness to amuse and entertain.
Wallace and Grommit on the moon!
And the moon throughout the year. Great video (a little dizzying), great music, and some interesting factoids thrown in.
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On 3 October 1857, a small grey mare known as "Alice" lined up for a match race with her rival Veno, from the colony of New South Wales (NSW), a race that would in time be remembered for its significance in setting the foundations for what has become Australia's greatest horse race and strengthening the thoroughbred racing and breeding industry in Australia. It was a time when inter-colonial rivalry was high, but this period of racing's history shows that the racing fraternities of each colony, while still highly competitive, were able to work together in a harmonious way to develop the industry we have today. This story is not so much about the match race, rather the life of the grey mare and the mark she left on Australian racing history.
"Alice", bred at Mt William Station in the Western District and owned by great racing supporters, the Chirnsides, was born sometime around 1849. Her sire was Delpare, an imported horse and her dam, Polly McQuinn, a part-Arab mare, bloodlines common in the early days of racing in Australia. "Alice" was branded with the Chirnside's "key" brand. Horses bearing that brand could never be sold.
At age three "Alice" was broken in and she spent time as a stock horse but, unlike her mother, she was not a good riding horse. The Chinese workers at the station used her to carry rations to workers situated at out stations on the property but she developed a fistula wither, a painful condition, and was turned out. During that time she became loose on the station roaming the bush for fifteen months. She ran with a wild horse and the result was a foal which died. Time in the bush had not served her well, but back on pasture, she blossomed.
Put to work again, "Alice" was used by Robert Christison, a horse-breaker at Mt William, to act as "nursemaid" to the young thoroughbreds he was breaking in. On one occasion, the young horses had missed a muster and Christison chose "Alice" to bring them back to the main paddock. What a surprise he received. This article, "Racing and Romance, Two Western Mares" includes excerpts from the book "After Many Days" by Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh that recount that day:
The little mare, who not long before had roamed the bush, impressed and ousted the talented Miss Campbell from her prime stall in the stables. She was also given her name, Alice Hawthorn.
Her first race was at Hamilton over a mile and a half. "Alice" won, kicking off a remarkable career which would span the next four years. As was racing in those times, "Alice" returned to Hamilton the following day and backed up the win.
It was not long before Alice Hawthorn was racing at Ballarat, Geelong, and then Flemington. This sketch shows her storming down the outside to win the Turf Club Autumn Cup of 1857.
It was this race and others that saw Alice Hawthorn considered one of Victoria's best horses and in turn, her name was given as a challenger to a horse from NSW in a match race of £1000 aside. The Victorians wanted to nominate three horses and select the best on the day, however, this was rejected by their NSW. colleagues who nominated just one horse, the chestnut Veno. Alice Hawthorn, it was.
There was some doubt in the minds of the Victorians that "Alice" was up to the task and her odds went out. Others considered the home track advantage would help her. Veno's arrival in Melbourne created much interest with crowds of people gathering to see the Sydney horse.
Meanwhile, there were security fears for "Alice' and her trainer Mr Green built a stable at his home to accommodate her safely.
This thorough description of "Alice", including her physique, action, and temperament is unlike anything seen today. The Melbourne correspondent noted her "fine, even temper which nothing can ruffle is the theme of universal admiration". Jokes were often made about her arrival at the starting line for races, looking like she had just woken from a sleep. This probably helped her settle in her races and run out the three miles.
Those attending the Great Inter-Colonial Match race from Sydney could take up the offer from the Australian Steam Navigation Company of a return ticket at a reduced rate.
In the preceding days, something akin to the call of the card was held at the Tattersall's Hotel in Russell Street, where the original challenge was offered. A healthy amount of money was wagered, all with a sense of good sportsmanship.
Chair, Mr Goldsborough welcomed the sporting men of Sydney, including trainer Mr Rowe, and reassured them that they "would be met upon all occasions in the hearty spirit of true sportsmen".
At the gathering, a decision was made to set up a subscription room at the Tattersalls Hotel for those of "good respectability and conduct' for a season ticket of ten shillings. The Produce Stakes was also devised, open to horses from all colonies.
On the morning of 3 October 1857, all roads led to Flemington. For others, a steamer up the Saltwater River (Maribyrnong River) was the preferred transport.
As feared by many Victorians, it was not Alice Hawthorn's day, with Veno winning the three-mile race. "Alice" was not disgraced but could not match the stamina of Veno.
Veno's trainer accepted another challenge with the horse backing up two races later against Victorian Van Tromp. Veno raced another three miles, finishing in a faster time than his race against "Alice", beating Van Tromp by two lengths.
The Victorian racing fraternity was left questioning their horses' bloodlines and those from the colony of NSW left no doubt where Veno hailed from as this headline from the Empire, a Sydney newspaper shows.This article from The Argus, written in the days, stressed how important breeding better Victorian horses was if they were to match it with the other colonies and the need for good horse races such as the match race, to make sure that the standard of horse improved.
It was not long before "Alice" was back racing and on 2 December she was at Ballarat, once again a winner.
On Thursday 18 February 1858, Alice Hawthorn won the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Flemington, redeeming herself with those who dismissed her both before and after her match race with Veno.
"Alice" continued to race and win. Just over twelve months after her match race, she was still considered Victoria's leading three miler, although some thought this was because she had nothing to beat.
The 1 October 1859 was the first running of the Australian Champion Sweepstakes at Flemington racecourse. Horses from the colonies of South Australia, New South Wales, and Tasmania were among the entries, true inter-colonial racing.
One of the entries, The Barber from South Australia, had an unfortunate and unexpected link to the Western District. The Barber's transportation to Melbourne was the steamer Admella. The Admella struck trouble along the South Australian coast near the Victorian border and the Portland lifeboat Ladybird with Captain James Fawthrop at her helm went to the rescue. All the horses aboard the steamer drowned, except for The Barber, who amazingly came to shore, two and a half miles away from the wreck. He was then walked overland to Geelong and travelled by rail to Melbourne. Not surprisingly he finished close to the tail of the field in the Sweepstakes.
"Alice", by this time at least ten years old, acquitted herself well in the three-mile race running fourth behind the winner Victorian Flying Buck, a three-year-old.
Alice Hawthorn ran her last race in November 1859 in the Turf Club Welter Handicap over three miles. She won by ten lengths and retired with £5000 in stakes money, the highest of any horse in the colonies.
The Chirnsides sent their mare to stud for a meeting with their imported stallion Peeping Tom. It is not clear if the mating was successful.
On 12 August 1860, the mare they called "Alice" passed away at the Chirnside's Point Cook at twelve years of age, only nine months out of racing. Her lungs that gave her the stamina to run long distances had failed her.
"Alice" went from the foothills of the Grampians to matching it with some of the leading horses in Victoria and the other colonies. She easily could have remained at Mount William Station as nursemaid to the future stars of the Chirnside's stables. It was only for her demonstration of brilliance rounding up the escaped horses that saw her rise to becoming a household name. She saw hard racing considering many of her races were over three miles, a mile further than the Melbourne Cup. Horses from her time could run two three mile races in a day, just as Veno did on 3 October 1857.
In 1861, the first Melbourne Cup was run. Racing was building up to a race like the Cup from the time of the Great Inter-Colonial match race, the Great Metropolitan Handicap and the Sweepstakes, but unlike those races, it has endured and strengthened over 150 years. Racing was evolving, as it was suggested it should after the 1857 match race, by creating great horse races to improve the stock. Unfortunately for Victoria, Archer from N.S.W. won the first two cups. Banker, bred by Woodend hotel keeper Joseph Harper, finally won for the colony in 1863. The Great Inter-Colonial match race began the stream of horses across the borders to race in Victoria. Today, Victorian racing is International, with overseas horses not only racing here in the spring but taking the main prize.
Alice Hawthorn and her rivals of the time have a place in Australian racing history. While the leaders of the Australian colonies were struggling to work together on a united front, the connections of these horses were showing their political counterparts how to do it. The Sporting Notes of The Argus of 24 March 1865 praised those involved in racing. Between the Great Inter-Colonial match race in 1857 and 1865, the racing clubs of the colonies had agreed on a single birth date for all thoroughbreds, August 1 and Victoria had revised its Weight for Age system to come into line with the other colonies. The correspondent said "It would be remarkable if meeting pleasantly on the neutral ground of sport, the Australian colonies were thereby hereafter to meet in an equally friendly spirit to deal with more important questions"
At the time of the death of Andrew Chirnside, The Border Watch reported that Alice Hawthorn helped make his name in racing circles.
I came to know about Alice Hawthorn while searching for articles about Mt. William Station at Trove. My ggg grandfather James Mortimer and his family arrived at Mt William Station around 1853, about the time "Alice" was broken in. He was there when she was working as a packhorse and when she rounded up the young horses. When Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh was at Munthum Station and heard the stories of the Delpare mare, James Mortimer was at Mt William Station. Was James Mortimer one of the stockmen who rode Alice her and dismissed her as a riding horse? He must have at least heard talk of her.
The talk of her continued for years after. Donald McDonald, in 1928, put Alice Hawthorn's racing career into perspective.


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When we recently detailed how to boost the storage space in a MacBook Air with a replacement solid state drive module, some readers asked what it would be like to swap the hard drive in an older MacBook with a similarly speedy SSD. We decided to investigate, and as it turns out, thanks to a common 2.5" drive size and widely available external enclosures, the swap is quicker, easier, and cheaper than the one for a MacBook Air.
Depending on the age of your machine and in some cases BTO drive options, the amount of the speedup will vary. Still, even our old original Intel MacBook—which, as we'll explain later, actually represents a worst case scenario—went from just barely usable to actually productive in just a few hours. Here, we'll tell you how to perform the same upgrade.
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For this how-to, we had at our disposal an original 2.0GHz Core Duo (yup, 32-bit) white MacBook. It recently had some major repair work due to a faulty expanding battery. Apple Care replaced nearly everything, including the keyboard, bottom casing, battery, and optical drive. In fact, the only original equipment is the LCD, LCD housing, and logic board.
Unlike the iBook before it, Apple designed MacBooks to make upgrading the hard drive (and the RAM) relatively simple, so this machine has already seen a few upgrades over the last several years. That includes maxing the installed RAM to 2GB (from 512MB) and gradually increasing the hard drive capacity. It originally came equipped with an 80GB 5400rpm drive, but recently had a monster 500GB 7200RPM Seagate drive stuffed inside.
The MacBook can't run Lion, thanks to its practically ancient 32-bit processor, but it does run the latest version of Snow Leopard. It also has Microsoft Office 2011, iLife '11, and Adobe Creative Suite CS3 installed. It's not the fastest Mac on the planet, but for many tasks it is a serviceable machine. Still, when doing something more than reading e-mail or browsing a few webpages, performance slows to a crawl once the 2GB RAM limit is hit and Mac OS X starts paging virtual memory to and from the hard disk.
Given that everything else is already maxed out, we wanted to upgrade to an SSD in order to squeeze a bit more life out of this laptop. If you have an older computer that already has the maximum RAM but still uses a hard drive, and you're not in the market for a new computer anytime soon, you can give it a boost with an SSD upgrade.
One last thing to keep in mind is that SSDs are still significantly more expensive than HDDs for comparable storage capacity. Our old MacBook already had a fairly massive 500GB capacity, but the drive only contains about 130GB of data. We ordered an OWC 240GB Mercury Extreme Pro 3G drive to install and test for this how-to, and you can see how prices compare in our chart below:
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|*based on prices of 2.5" WD Blue drives from macsales.com
If your data storage needs aren't too great, or if you keep iTunes, iPhoto, or other large media libraries on external drives already, you can upgrade to an SSD for a fairly reasonable price. The 240GB SSD we chose is a pricey upgrade for such an old machine, to be honest. But as we'll discuss later, the speed improvement was worth it to us.
If you're looking for massive storage on the cheap though, SSD is definitely not the way to go. But you might install an SSD and move the existing hard drive into an inexpensive external enclosure. (This also makes the whole installation process very simple and fast.) After updating the MacBook, we ended up with a 500GB portable backup drive.
Let's get started.
Installation: two screwdrivers and an SSD
The installation process for the drive itself is straightforward: remove the laptop battery and a small bracket to access the internal drive bay, take out the current HDD, swap in the OWC SSD, and put the bracket and battery back in place. Depending on your comfort level, you should be able to do this in 10-15 minutes.
Moving data to the new SSD was fairly quick and painless. We used an external enclosure to clone the MacBook's boot drive to the new SSD before installing it. Alternately, you could install Mac OS X fresh and restore from a Time Machine backup or pull data from the boot volume using Migration Assistant. If you are concerned that your boot volume has become overgrown with digital cruft, you could even reinstall software manually and copy over any critical data from your old boot volume as needed.
We think our 'clone then install' method is a good compromise between safe and fast.


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